Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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